ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,836, issued on June 17, was assigned to SambaNova Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Estimating a scaled cost of implementing an operation unit graph on a reconfigurable processor" was invented by Yue Fu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kin Hing Leung (Cupertino, Calif.), Joshua Brot (Palo Alto, Calif.), Arvind Krishna Sujeeth (Palo Alto, Calif.), Sumti Jairath (Palo Alto, Calif.), Andrew Deng (San Jose, Calif.) and Raghu Prabhakar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cost estimation tool in a system for implementing an operation unit graph on a reconfigurable processor is presented as well as a method of operating a cost estimatio...